I don't think it is in any way elitist. Everyone who writes English writes that way. But I don't think we will ever get a true phonetic spelling.
Stevertigo stevertigo@attbi.com wrote:I think this is nonsense. Proper English is a product of specialization. English is not the property of English speakers, but a lingua franca that everyone owns. Hence, its destined to become simplified - phonetic - scratch that - fonetic speling iz tha furst thing laikli tu hapen tu English - or it should. Someday soon.
All that registered - I dislike the tone of enforcing propriety. It smacks of elitism. The articles that Ive seen - written in funky English - are generally intelligible - and If I come across one, Ill usually take time to edit it.
If someone wants to make it their perorgative to take this on as a task - and to enlist other in it, then so be it. Bat formalaizing som kaind ov Englo-defensyzm is the most tryvial of persuts. If that was the spirit in which this was raised.
-S
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